Food Desert Solutions

The Peapod & NEIGHBOR CAPITAL
Healthy Families Project

In autumn of 2009, Peapod and NEIGHBOR CAPITAL began to strategize on solutions for Chicago’s Food Desert communities. Later that year, Peapod retained Mari Gallagher Research & Consulting Group to complement and enhance the impact of their Healthy Families collaboration through robust empirical analysis. As part of this effort, MG conducted a block- level study to identify the greatest at-risk families in the Food Desert who might be suffering now or in the future from obesity, diabetes and other diet-related conditions. This document provides the summary of our findings.

Click the link below to download and view the initial research document from Mari Gallagher Research & Consulting Group: